Paper folding box



Dec 3, 1925' 1,563,322

S. BERGSTEIN PAPER FOLDING Box File -N0 --24, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A TTORNEY Patented Dec. 1, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL BEBGSTEIN, OFMIDDLETGVIN, GI-IIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE INTERSTATE FOLD ING- BOX COMPANY, OF MIDDLETO'WN, OHIO.

PAPER FOLDING BOX.

Application filed November 24, 1923.

To all to 710m it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BERGSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Folding Boxes and the like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to paper folding boxes, having particular reference to counter or show window boxes for displaying confections, toilet articles, etc.

The main object of the invention is to provide a paper folding box of the character referred to which will be adapted to be made in one piece, thus to efiect substantial saving of material in the cutting of the blanks from which the boxes are made, and also to minimize-time and labor production costs.

A further object is to provide a box upon which suitable advertisements can be printed, including an advertisement on a display flap as the box is adjusted for counter or show window display, in a single printing operation, thus to further reduce the cost of roduction.

n object of the invention is to provide a box which, as furnished to the trade in knocked-down form will be cut and scored and pasted ready to be set up, certain of'the cut portions being only partially severed for the purpose of retaining the coacting portions in normal relation one with another as the boxes are handled in stock, the uncut or retaining connections being of such slight extent that parting of the portions so joined together can be easily effected by applying slight pressure thereto as the boxes are set up.

While the improved box, as herein shown in complete form, is adapted as a display box, the box in a modified form is also adapted as a container for articles, as shoes, hardware, accessories, etc., not ordinarily displayed in boxes, the object attained in the modification consisting in a one-piece box, of novel construction, in which the opposite sections of the box-lid and bodyare joined together, thus serving to keep the box intact at times when the contents are temporarily removed from the box.

In the accompanying drawings the im- Serial No. 678,693.

proved box is illustrated in the two forms referred to, in which:

Fig. 1 illustrates the paper blank for making the display box, the blank being shown flat, slotted and scored for folding and setting-up;

Fig. 2 is a plan view illustrating the blank shown in Fig. 1 folded in knockeddown form;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the box closed;

Fig. 4 is an elevation of an end of the box closed;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the box closed;

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the box set-up for displaying its contents;

Fig. 7 is an end view of the box as shown in Fig. 6; r

Fig; 8 is a bottom view of the box as shown in Fig. 6.

The paper blank for the box, as shown in Fig. 1, consists of one piece comprising the opposite sections A and B adapted respec tively to form the body and the lid of the box, the opposite ends of the blank being cut and scored in a well known manner to be folded and glued one part to another as the box is formed; the'corner flaps l-2 being adapted to be folded inwardly and glued to the inner surfaces of the end flaps 8, a compound fold being made of the ends of the blank, inknocked down form, on score lines 5, as shown at4 in Fig. 2.

To set-up and close the box the blank is folded upwardly on score line 6, the top section B being then folded over section A on score line 7, the sections A and B being brought together telescopically with the intermediateportion 8 forming an end of the box, the closed box being illustrated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, the end flaps 9 being folded over the end of the box outside the portion 8, as shown 'in Fig. 4, and joined one to the other by means of oppositely arranged notches 10. In the closed box the side portions 11 are outside, as shown in Fig; 3, the same being held intact with the main portion B by uncut portions a which serve to unite one portion with another.

As best shown in Fig. 1 the paper blank for the display box is provided with the flap C suitable for having an advertisement printed on the outside thereof relative to the contents of the box, the flap being held diate the edges 14 of flap 0 serving as a projection to be engaged by thumb and finger to raise. the flap andbreak the retaining connections a which unite the flap with portion vB. As hereinstated any ad- I vertisement printed on flap C .will been the outer surface of the box blank and can thus be printed on the same operation with other advertisements printed on the body of the box.

As further shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8,.the lid portion'of the display box as set-up is formed into a rectangular-shaped pedestal D, adapted to support the box at a.suit able angle for displaying its contents, the rectangular shape of the pedestal being effected by breaking the. connections -a which unite: side portions 11 with portion B and then folding the portions 11 inwardly at right angles and connecting one portion with the other by means of opposite slots 17, as best shown in ,Fig. 8,:the open box andthepedestalbein-geonnected one to the other by the strip portions 18, a lip 19 formed in the bottom of portion A serving to hold the partsin assembled relation by being broughtinto engagement with the upper edges of portions .11.

For the non-display type of box, the advertisement flap C, is not; out from portion B,portions 11 also remaining uneut from portion B andthe lips 15,16 and l91omitted, the box in other respects beingsubstantially the same as that herein described.

Having describedm-y invention, I claim:

1. A paper folding box formed of an integral blank slotted and scored for folding and including opp.osite;portionsadapted to form the top and bottom of the box respectively, joined one to the other by an intermediate portion adapted to form. an end of the box, slotted side portions outwardly adjacent said intermediate portions one slot being inverseoto the other and adapted to overlap and to be joined one'to the other outwardly of said intermediate portion, as the box is set up, by means of said slots.

2. A- paper folding box formed of an integral blank including opposite portions adapted to form the top and bottom of the box, opposite side portions partially out from said top portion of the blank and adapted to be turned inwardly transversely of theblank, one portion overlapping the other, to form, together with an end and remaining side portions of the top of the box, a base adapted to be folded under an end of the box wherebytopresent the same at a suitable angle for displaying the contents thereof.

3. A paper folding box formed of an integral blank including opposite portions adaptedto form thetopand bottom of the box, slotted- ,portions partially cut from the opposite sides of;,said .top portion of the blank andadapted to be turned inwardly transversely of the blank-and joined one to the other by means; of said slots therein where-byte fornntogether with an ,end and iremaining side portions of the top of the box, a base adapted to be folded under an end of the box wherebyto present the same at a suitable angle for-displaying the contents thereof.

4. A paper folding box formedof an integral blank: including opposite portions adapt- :L

ture.

SAMUEL BERGSTEIN. 

